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University of Southern California
DAILY ® TROJAN
VOL. LXII
NO. 106
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 1971
Gay lib to sue for recognition
Photo by Bruce Bolinger
WHAT IS IT?
The Food Fair, one of the activities of the International Festival now in progress, featured tastes from around the world yesterday in Alumni Park.
Voters decide fate of candidates today
One of the stormiest election campaigns in recent memory comes to a head today and tomorrow as students will vote for 12 ASSC offices and decide on eight propositions, including the Peoples’ Peace Treaty.
A series of suits and constitutional questions have inundated the Student Ck)urt and kept it busy right up to election time.
The court upheld the ASSC's postponement of the election, originally scheduled for March 16 and 17, so that the proposed Associated Students of the University of Southern California Constitution could be put before the student body.
On April 1 the court issued an injunction supposedly banning distribution of the Free Trojan during the election period, finding that the newspaper was biased and contained “slanted and subjective content.”
The Free Trojan, however, went on publishing in spite of the court ruling, and—yesterday the court reversed its ruling.
Friday the court declined to review a suit brought by Tom Levyn, ASSC vice-president for programs. The suit charged that the Students for Representative Government slate had violated the Elections Code by pooling their resources.
The question whether to ratify the Peoples’ Peace Treaty or not heads the list of propositions. The teach-in held last week had as one of its primary goals the ratification of the treaty.
There is also a proposition on the ballot calling for the abolition of ROTC on campus by next fall. Those presently enrolled would be allowed to graduate, but no new students would be taken.
Two more propositions are calling for the abolition of two of the general education requirements now in effect—those of a foreign language and physical education.
Another proposal concerns the question of whether the university should immediately begin construction on the Center for the School of Performing Arts.
The last three propositions have to do
(Continued on page 5)
By MARY ANN GALANTE Focus Editor
The Gay Liberation Forum will file suit against the university for refusing to recognize the group as an official student organization, Larry Bernard, GLF representative, said yesterday.
The suit will allege that the group's constitutional rights of free speech under the First Amendment were violated by the university’s refusal to recognize the Forum.
The refusal was given last Thursday when the Board of Trustees voted not to officially approve the group “at this time.’’ No official reason was given then for the refusal.
In a similar case at Sacramento State College in January, 1971, a superior court judge ruled that the college's refusal to register the Society for Homosexual Freedom as a student organization violated student’s rights of free speech.
“First we're going to try to get an injunction against the university,” said Bernard, who conferred with ACLU lawyers last night. “If we can’t get a judge to sign the injunction, we’ll file a lawsuit.”
Bernard said the board's action also violates USC’s Statement of Student Rights and Responsibilities in three areas:
• The preamble, which states members of the university community have a responsibility to provide an atmosphere of free inquiry and expression.
• Section IV, A, which states students shall be free to organize and join campus organizations to promote their common interests.
• Section IV A 2, which states approval of any application for recognition of a student organization shall rest with a body which has adequate student representation.
“The Board of Trustees has no student representation,” said Bernard. “Obviously, they're not qualified under the statement of Student Rights to approve or disapprove of our application for recognition.”
Bernard and the Gay Liberation Forum will seek financial backing from the ASSC for their case.
“The ASSC has lost the most face because it is their statement of rights that has been violated.” he said.
A group calling itself the Committee Against Trustee Repression will meet at 7 p.m. tonight in the Student Activities Center to discuss possible action against the board.
Stan Diorio, committee member and graduate representative, said he hoped representatives of every organization on campus would attend the committee's meeting. “The meeting is not only against repression of the Gay Liberation Forum,” he said.
“We’ll be talking about all forms of student repression.” said Diorio. “Specifically, the topic will be gay liberation. but we'll also discuss the dorm visitation policy and the university's charges against Henry Blackburn.”
(Continued on page 10)
Fonda calls for students to organize
By RICH WISEMAN News Editor
People of the Third World must organize and then take the fight to the streets if they ever hope to remove the yoke of oppression that has taken form in everything from America's economic system to the USC administration’s denial of 24-hour visitation in the women’s dorms, Jane Fonda, actress turned critic of the American situation, told a Bovard audience yesterday.
The struggles of women on this campus to obtain 24-hour visitation and of homosexuals to gain university recognition are similar to the struggles of others to end American's ills—racism, capitalism and imperialism—in that the people are trying to assert self-deter-mination, Miss Fonda said. “Self-de-termination is the key to all things,” she said.
What happens once groups organize? “I'm not a pacifist,” Miss Fonda said. “If someone oppresses me I will fight back.
“The only places where the ground structure can take the fight is to the streets, the military bases and the campuses.”
Before the battle can be fought, however, people will have to overcome their brainwashing, she said.
“One of the biggest problems we have is the sense of isolation people have been forced to feel,” she explained. “We’re told we have to be individuals, that we can’t join together. Right away we're in competition with the person next door.
(Continued on page 10)
Free Trojan decision reversed
By JIM HART and GUNTHER MERLI
The Student Court rescinded its injunction on distribution of the Free Trojan yesterday, saying that the injunction was not consistent with the Statement of Student Rights and Responsibilities.
In other action, the Student Court declined to hear the complaint of Tom Levyn, ASSC vice-president for programs, against the Students for Representative Government campaign slate at its meeting Friday.
In its decision yesterday, the court said it realized a violation took place when the Free Trojan published Monday. but it recommended to the university that no action be taken.
The court also recommended that, in the future, any discretion regarding underground papers rests with the elections commissioner, with final disposi-
tion again resting with the court.
Steven Knowles, a justice of the court and the author of the majority decision in the original case concerning the Free Trojan, said it was the consensus of the court that the original intent behind that majority decision had been fulfilled.
Knowles said the court felt that the Free Trojan had softened its reporting so that it was not so overtly biased.
Knowles, who was one of the minority in the 4-2 vote, said he strongly disagreed with the decision.
“This decision is just a representation that the court acquiesced to pressure from outside sources,” Knowles said.
Knowles cited those outside sources as the Daily Trojan, fraternities, the Los Angeles Times and Paul Moore, director of student activities.
In the Levyn case, the court sup-
ported the previous decision of the elections commissioner to let the SRG pool its resources and recommended that the ASSC Executive Council clarify the election code as to pooling and reapportionment of resources.
Levyn, who was not present at the court meeting, had originally asked the court to place an injunction on the campaign pamphlets of the SRG. In his brief, he stated that the 10 candidates on the SRG slate were receiving $395 of publicity from the pamphlets, which exceeded each candidate’s allowable amount.
According to the election code, candidates for ASSC president and vice-president are limited to $200 in campaign spending and all other candidates to $100.
Charlene Bandurraga, elections commissioner, said she had allowed the SRG to pool its resources and form a slate
because each candidate was still spending within his limit. Each candidate only paid for one-tenth of the total $395 expenditure, thus staying within his limit, she said.
“We saw it as a political maneuver by Levyn to disqualify the SRG candidates,” said Jeff Birran, SRG campaign manager. Levyn has a prominent quote in a camapign pamphlet of Kent Clemence, candidate for ASSC president.
Levyn denied any political motives. He said that his actions were not directed at the SRG. but at possible abuses of the slate idea.
Dan Levinson, chief justice, and Lyle Morris, Jerry Reitman. and Mike Yag-jian, associate justices, were present at the court meeting.

University of Southern California
DAILY ® TROJAN
VOL. LXII
NO. 106
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 1971
Gay lib to sue for recognition
Photo by Bruce Bolinger
WHAT IS IT?
The Food Fair, one of the activities of the International Festival now in progress, featured tastes from around the world yesterday in Alumni Park.
Voters decide fate of candidates today
One of the stormiest election campaigns in recent memory comes to a head today and tomorrow as students will vote for 12 ASSC offices and decide on eight propositions, including the Peoples’ Peace Treaty.
A series of suits and constitutional questions have inundated the Student Ck)urt and kept it busy right up to election time.
The court upheld the ASSC's postponement of the election, originally scheduled for March 16 and 17, so that the proposed Associated Students of the University of Southern California Constitution could be put before the student body.
On April 1 the court issued an injunction supposedly banning distribution of the Free Trojan during the election period, finding that the newspaper was biased and contained “slanted and subjective content.”
The Free Trojan, however, went on publishing in spite of the court ruling, and—yesterday the court reversed its ruling.
Friday the court declined to review a suit brought by Tom Levyn, ASSC vice-president for programs. The suit charged that the Students for Representative Government slate had violated the Elections Code by pooling their resources.
The question whether to ratify the Peoples’ Peace Treaty or not heads the list of propositions. The teach-in held last week had as one of its primary goals the ratification of the treaty.
There is also a proposition on the ballot calling for the abolition of ROTC on campus by next fall. Those presently enrolled would be allowed to graduate, but no new students would be taken.
Two more propositions are calling for the abolition of two of the general education requirements now in effect—those of a foreign language and physical education.
Another proposal concerns the question of whether the university should immediately begin construction on the Center for the School of Performing Arts.
The last three propositions have to do
(Continued on page 5)
By MARY ANN GALANTE Focus Editor
The Gay Liberation Forum will file suit against the university for refusing to recognize the group as an official student organization, Larry Bernard, GLF representative, said yesterday.
The suit will allege that the group's constitutional rights of free speech under the First Amendment were violated by the university’s refusal to recognize the Forum.
The refusal was given last Thursday when the Board of Trustees voted not to officially approve the group “at this time.’’ No official reason was given then for the refusal.
In a similar case at Sacramento State College in January, 1971, a superior court judge ruled that the college's refusal to register the Society for Homosexual Freedom as a student organization violated student’s rights of free speech.
“First we're going to try to get an injunction against the university,” said Bernard, who conferred with ACLU lawyers last night. “If we can’t get a judge to sign the injunction, we’ll file a lawsuit.”
Bernard said the board's action also violates USC’s Statement of Student Rights and Responsibilities in three areas:
• The preamble, which states members of the university community have a responsibility to provide an atmosphere of free inquiry and expression.
• Section IV, A, which states students shall be free to organize and join campus organizations to promote their common interests.
• Section IV A 2, which states approval of any application for recognition of a student organization shall rest with a body which has adequate student representation.
“The Board of Trustees has no student representation,” said Bernard. “Obviously, they're not qualified under the statement of Student Rights to approve or disapprove of our application for recognition.”
Bernard and the Gay Liberation Forum will seek financial backing from the ASSC for their case.
“The ASSC has lost the most face because it is their statement of rights that has been violated.” he said.
A group calling itself the Committee Against Trustee Repression will meet at 7 p.m. tonight in the Student Activities Center to discuss possible action against the board.
Stan Diorio, committee member and graduate representative, said he hoped representatives of every organization on campus would attend the committee's meeting. “The meeting is not only against repression of the Gay Liberation Forum,” he said.
“We’ll be talking about all forms of student repression.” said Diorio. “Specifically, the topic will be gay liberation. but we'll also discuss the dorm visitation policy and the university's charges against Henry Blackburn.”
(Continued on page 10)
Fonda calls for students to organize
By RICH WISEMAN News Editor
People of the Third World must organize and then take the fight to the streets if they ever hope to remove the yoke of oppression that has taken form in everything from America's economic system to the USC administration’s denial of 24-hour visitation in the women’s dorms, Jane Fonda, actress turned critic of the American situation, told a Bovard audience yesterday.
The struggles of women on this campus to obtain 24-hour visitation and of homosexuals to gain university recognition are similar to the struggles of others to end American's ills—racism, capitalism and imperialism—in that the people are trying to assert self-deter-mination, Miss Fonda said. “Self-de-termination is the key to all things,” she said.
What happens once groups organize? “I'm not a pacifist,” Miss Fonda said. “If someone oppresses me I will fight back.
“The only places where the ground structure can take the fight is to the streets, the military bases and the campuses.”
Before the battle can be fought, however, people will have to overcome their brainwashing, she said.
“One of the biggest problems we have is the sense of isolation people have been forced to feel,” she explained. “We’re told we have to be individuals, that we can’t join together. Right away we're in competition with the person next door.
(Continued on page 10)
Free Trojan decision reversed
By JIM HART and GUNTHER MERLI
The Student Court rescinded its injunction on distribution of the Free Trojan yesterday, saying that the injunction was not consistent with the Statement of Student Rights and Responsibilities.
In other action, the Student Court declined to hear the complaint of Tom Levyn, ASSC vice-president for programs, against the Students for Representative Government campaign slate at its meeting Friday.
In its decision yesterday, the court said it realized a violation took place when the Free Trojan published Monday. but it recommended to the university that no action be taken.
The court also recommended that, in the future, any discretion regarding underground papers rests with the elections commissioner, with final disposi-
tion again resting with the court.
Steven Knowles, a justice of the court and the author of the majority decision in the original case concerning the Free Trojan, said it was the consensus of the court that the original intent behind that majority decision had been fulfilled.
Knowles said the court felt that the Free Trojan had softened its reporting so that it was not so overtly biased.
Knowles, who was one of the minority in the 4-2 vote, said he strongly disagreed with the decision.
“This decision is just a representation that the court acquiesced to pressure from outside sources,” Knowles said.
Knowles cited those outside sources as the Daily Trojan, fraternities, the Los Angeles Times and Paul Moore, director of student activities.
In the Levyn case, the court sup-
ported the previous decision of the elections commissioner to let the SRG pool its resources and recommended that the ASSC Executive Council clarify the election code as to pooling and reapportionment of resources.
Levyn, who was not present at the court meeting, had originally asked the court to place an injunction on the campaign pamphlets of the SRG. In his brief, he stated that the 10 candidates on the SRG slate were receiving $395 of publicity from the pamphlets, which exceeded each candidate’s allowable amount.
According to the election code, candidates for ASSC president and vice-president are limited to $200 in campaign spending and all other candidates to $100.
Charlene Bandurraga, elections commissioner, said she had allowed the SRG to pool its resources and form a slate
because each candidate was still spending within his limit. Each candidate only paid for one-tenth of the total $395 expenditure, thus staying within his limit, she said.
“We saw it as a political maneuver by Levyn to disqualify the SRG candidates,” said Jeff Birran, SRG campaign manager. Levyn has a prominent quote in a camapign pamphlet of Kent Clemence, candidate for ASSC president.
Levyn denied any political motives. He said that his actions were not directed at the SRG. but at possible abuses of the slate idea.
Dan Levinson, chief justice, and Lyle Morris, Jerry Reitman. and Mike Yag-jian, associate justices, were present at the court meeting.